Microsoft to adopt Firefox's RSS feed icon

In IE7, the next version of Microsofts web browser, the company will adopt Firefox's RSS feed icon, effectively making the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard. In what seems like a welcome sign of future co-operation to come between Microsoft and Mozilla, representatives from Microsoft took a trip down to Mozilla's Mountain View offices to work out a deal.

"We all agreed that its in the users best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS and RSS-related features in a browser," the Microsoft team wrote. The team had said in October that it would design an original RSS icon.Similarly, the next version of Outlook e-mail client (its 12 incarnation) will also use the orange icon.